Braly: Cooking Chinese at home presents problems

My father and grandfather were born in China. One of my first cousins married a Chinese man, so through their daughter I have a Chinese blood relation.

Brentwood Gazette published Enter the year of the dragon

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Time to fire up your stove for the Year of the Dragon

You gotta envy the magical, fire-breathing dragon, and the people born under its sign in the Chinese zodiac. The most powerful of the animals that symbolize each of 12 years in the astrological cycle, the dragon is believed to be a deliverer of good fortune, a roaring symbol of wealth and power. Talk about having an edge on the competition.

Lin Jia's Neutered Spice

New Lakeshore eatery's attempts at high-brow Asian are noble but fall flat. by Jesse Hirsch There's a gleam of the picturesque in Marcia Lam's culinary evolution. She's the adult child of Chinese immigrants, a fifteen-year veteran of her parents' greasy takeout restaurant in Hayward.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]

Food: Beef can be bitter-sweet

Special treatment for a classic cut of meat By Tom Castrigno SUMMIT COUNTY — As someone who does not eat beef often, I often cook it on the grill — cooking it indoors only seemed to result in a major cleaning project. But I changed my rule when the thermometer read in the single digits [...]

Carb those cravings

Unless you're involved in planning the opening ceremony at the Olympics, it's likely you'll be thrifty in 2012.